Writing-tablet



(No Model.).

G. L. GARRI UES. Writing Tablet.

No. 237,513. Patented Feb. 8, 1 881.

N. FErens, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPH ER, WASHINGTON D c limiter) STATES PATENTOrrice.

GEORGE ncARRIGUEs, 0F PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

WRITING-TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,513, dated February8, 1881.

Application filed September 515, 1880. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern- Be it known that I, GEORGE L. GARRIGUES, ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Writing-Tablet,ot'which the following is a specification.

My invention relates generally to what are known as paper pads orblanks, which consist of many sheets of paper of equal size superimposedand compacted one upon another or stitched together, so as to form asolid tablet, of which the sheets, when used, can be successivelyremoved; and it relates more specifically to the construction of atemporary binder for the same, whereby several pads can be successivelyemployed without danger during their employment of the loss of the stubsor vouchers printed upon such pads. My binder is designed to readily andeasily engage and retain removable pads, and to support them in use, andis designed, also, to

provide, in connection with the/binder proper, a memorandum slate ortablet.

My invention consists in a combined binder, tablet, and slate of theconstruction hereinafter fully set forth.

My invention being designed especially for use by clerks in retailstores, the slate is applied to facilitate rapid calculations in theselling of goods.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view, in perspective, ofabinder embodying my invention, with the pad in place thereupon, andwith a pencil in a pencil-holder applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end viewof the same, indicating the manner of. insertion of the pad; Fig. 3, alongitudinal central sectional view from the side, showing the positionof the pad when in place, and also indicating the location of the slate;Fig. 4., a similar view of the same with the slate removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the pad, B the stubs, and G the detachableblanks.

D is the pad-holder or binder proper, which consists of a backing-piece,E, of about the size of the pad, having at one extremity a head orretaining device, F, within which the pad is secured, and by means ofwhich the stubs are fixedly retained.

G is a writing-tablet, formed either of slate or other proper substance,for either slate or lead pencil, from which marks maybe readily erased,and which is best secured upon the upper face of the backing-piece,beneath the pad, by lapping over thereupon the edges H of thebacking-piece.

I is a pencil-holder containing a suitable pencil.

J is a ring to secure the binder to the person of the user.

K K are studs or knobs upon which the tablet is rested in its use upon aflat surface.

In the making of my binder l prelerto eluploy thin or light sheet metal,and so to stamp it in the blank that it can be bent upon itself to formthe head and, it desired, the pencil holder, andalso so as to form thebindingedge H, which retains the slate. This latter, however, may beotherwise secured, as by cementatiou or like method.

L is a spring, one end of which is securely fastened to the back portionof the backing piece of the binder, beneath the head, by soldering,riveting, or the like, which is bellied out in the form shown in Fig. 2,between its two extremities, while its other end is lel'tfreo to moveupon the surface of the backingpiece as the pad is forced into the headfrom the side.

The pad, which is, as stated, secured together along its stub end, isintroduced side- Wise within the head of the holder, being slidthereinto, and is retained by the pressure which the compressed springexerts upon it. The tablet is removed by drawing it out to the side inthe reverse manner to that in which it was entered. The spring is theretaining device proper.

In the use of the slate or writing-tablet the blanks of the pad areraised, the only point of their attachment being within the head.

It is obvious that the binder is adapted for use with many pads, thefilled stub portions being removed together and intact when the blankshave been consumed. It will also be understood that the sides andopposite end of the pad are best left ungummed, unstitched, andseparate.

The backing-piece insures the necessary stiffness to the pad in use, anddispenses with the ordinary pasteboard backing, thereby cheapening thepads.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the as to press against the pad and retain thelat-United States ter in place, substantially as set forth. 1o As a devicefor retaining a tearing-0E pad In testimony whereof I have hereuntosigned removably in place upon a backing-piece, the my name this 25thday of June; 1880.

head F, constructed as shown and described, GEO. L. GARRIGUES. incombination with the spring L, secured at In presence ofone end withinthe head, free to slide at the JOHN J OLLEY, Jr.,

other end, and bellied out between its ends, so W. (J. STRAWBRIDGE.

